Jesse Reed
One week after the horribly disturbing video of Joe Mixon decking Amelia Molitor became public, the Oklahoma running back offered a public apology.
WATCH: Here's Joe Mixon's opening statement. #Sooners https://t.co/1B5XZtPoZt
โ ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐. ๐ฟ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ (@soonergridiron) December 23, 2016
Mixon said, โIโm here to apologize to Ms. Molitor. โฆI ask for your forgiveness. I let a lot of people down.โ He also said itโs never okay to retaliate and hit a woman, no matter what she has done.
Late though it may be, Mixonโs apology showed he is emotional about the issue, or at least that he regrets what he did. He also said heโd be willing to speak to Domestic Violence advocacy groups and children so they can learn from his mistake.
Joe Mixon said he's "definitely" willing to speak to Domestic Violence advocacy groups as well as to kids to learn from his mistakes.
โ Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) December 23, 2016
The video that came out last week, which is extremely violent and shows just how vicious Mixonโs punch was (watch here), was released two years after the fact and took a court order to become public.
The entire ordeal has become a fiasco for Oklahoma, Mixon and head coach Bob Stoops, whose comments on the matter are, quite frankly, just as disturbing. He essentially said that, if Mixon had hit Molitor in 2016, heโd be booted off the team.
Stoops: 2 1/2 years later, dismissal is the only thing that's possible. โฆ There' no recovering from these incidents anymore.
โ John Shinn (@john_shinn) December 21, 2016
Yet Mixon remains on Oklahomaโs team, with Stoops saying he might make a decision on Mixonโs futureโฆafter the team takes on Auburn in the Sugar Bowl.
So, on the one hand, we applaud Mixon for finally facing the media to address his horrible mistake and apologize publicly. On the other hand, itโs a crying shame this didnโt happen a couple years ago, and that the University of Oklahoma didnโt address it appropriately then, or now.
